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Changing delayed formula

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  • Subject: [mg35461] Changing delayed formula
  • From: "Julio Vera" <jvera at adinet.com.uy>
  • Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 03:49:01 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi,

I have a list of lists. it's length (the number of sublists it 
contains) varies.

In[1]:= des={{11,12,13,14},{21,22,23},{31,32},{41,42,43,44,45}}

Out[1]:= {{11,12,13,14},{21,22,23},{31,32},{41,42,43,44,45}}

The length of each of the sublists is arbitrary, too. So I have this 
list of lengths.

In[2]:= elems=Flatten[Table[Dimensions[des[[i]]],{i,Length[des]}]]

Out[2]:= {4,3,2,5}

I want to obtain the list of all combinations of one element of each 
sublist, bounded by &&. This will be a list of 120 elements, each of 
them with 4 components. I define a delayed formula, and apply Array to 
it (the characters printed as bold are subscripts in the Mathematica 
notebook).

In[3]:= 
cond4[a_,b_,g_,d_]:=des[[1,a]]&&des[[2,b]]&&des[[3,g]]&&des[[4,d]]

In[4]:= combi=Flatten[Array[condLength[des],elems]]

Out[4]:= 
{11&&21&&31&&41,11&&21&&31&&42,11&&21&&31&&43,11&&21&&31&&44,...

  ...14&&23&&32&&42,14&&23&&32&&43,14&&23&&32&&44,14&&23&&32&&45}

Since the length of des varies, I would have to define cond each time. 
For instance:

cond3[a_,b_,g_,d_]:=des[[1,a]]&&des[[2,b]]&&des[[3,g]]

I would like to make a definition for cond that would adapt to these 
changes automatically.

I arrived to this solution, which is not rejected by Mathematica, but 
does not work, either.

In[5]:= d[a_,b_]:=des[[a,b<>"_"]]

In[6]:= Unprotect[ReplaceAll]

Out[6]:= {ReplaceAll}

In[7]:= 
condLength[des][Table[FromCharacterCode[944+i]<>"_",{i,Length[des]}]]/.{a__}=AEa:=Apply[And,Table[d[i,FromCharacterCode[944+i]<>"_"],{i,Length[des]}]]

In fact, I quit the kernel and rerun all the cells except the one 
written here as In[3]. If not, the definition for cond4 remains as it 
was. I was not able to clear cond4 individually.

Thanks very much for anything you can suggest.

Best regards,

Julio Vera



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